Essay on the nature and treatment of cholera and fever
Subtitle: with medical remarks on the treatment of cattle plague : also an appendix on public health
By: by James Tucker
Publisher: John Falconer; Churchill & Sons
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Dublin; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Cholera; Public Health; Water Supply; Therapy; Salts; Therapeutic use; Physiology; Rinderpest
Description: Begins with a letter to William Stevens and discusses with enthusiasm his theories about a saline treatment for cholera and "formidable cattle distempers". Opium, brandy, cajegut oil, seidlitz powder, epsom salts, beef tea, carbonate of soda, tartrate of soda and potass and quinine are mentioned as being used elsewhere to help cure it.